Private Raymond R. Hotaling was enlisted 16th of June 1944 at Fort Dix New Jersey.
Black crackle Zippo with hand painted monogram «H» together with his personal belongings including crucifix, dog tag and sweetheart bracelet.
Crucifix – Raymond R. Hotaling
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Colonel Rank Insignia
Colonel, the highest field-grade officer, ranking just below the General officer grades.
Worn black crackle Zippo with a Colonel rank insignia and a U.S. Army officers collar insignia on each side.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
French Foreign Legion
The French foreign legion was involved in different battles during WWII especially in Africa: 1940 in Dakar (French West Africa) and Gabon (French Equatorial Africa), 1941 in Keren (Eritrea) and Marocco (French Morocco), 1942 in Bir Hakeim (Libya) and El Alamein (Egypt) and 1943 in Djebel Mansour and Djebel Zaghouan (Tunisia).
Black crackle Zippo with an applique of a French foreign legion soldiers head with a Sahara kepi.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
sold
Shriners of North America
Black crackle Zippo with an applique from the Shriners of North America. According to the original owner, the Zippo was hit by a bullet during the war and repaired on both sides.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Stamped Letters – Lee. Townsend
Well worn black crackle Zippo with stamped letters «Lee. Townsend».
- Model:
four barrel hinge, flat bottom
- Year:
1942 - 43
- Status:
in collection
Self Applied – Hearts
Well worn black crackle Zippo with a brass heart applied on each side.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, flat bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Self Engraved – Fran & Don
Black crackle Zippo with the engravings: «Don» with a heart on the front and «Fran» with a heart on the back.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Self Engraved – Tidmore
Well worn black crackle Zippo with the owner's name «TIDMORE» hand engraved with points on the front.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, flat bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Self Engraved – Peter S. Hitchcock
Well worn black crackle Zippo with the owner's name «Peter S. Hitchcock» and his service number «O-1327543» engraved on the front.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Self Engraved – D S
Black crackle Zippo with various engravings: the owner's initials «D S » and the combination «Dave & Bea» on the front and the insignia of a Brigadier General and the Service Command on the other side.
- Model:
four barrel hinge, flat bottom
- Year:
1942 - 43
- Status:
in collection
Self Engraved – Jane & Art Holley
Worn black crackle Zippo with different engravings: «Jane Holley» and the date «1942» on the front and «Art Holley» on the other side.
- Model:
four barrel hinge, flat bottom
- Year:
1942 - 43
- Status:
sold
Self Engraved – Jim
Worn black crackle Zippo with the painted name «Jim» on the front.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
sold
Sports – Cubs Chicago
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs enjoyed one more pennant at the close of WWII. Due to the wartime travel restrictions, the first three games of the 1945 World Series were played in Detroit. Indeed, the '45 season, and others during the war years, almost didn't happen. Some officials thought professional sports an unnecessary drain on resources needed for the war effort. Fortunately for fans, President Franklin Roosevelt had overruled them, with a letter in 1942 to Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the commissioner of baseball. «I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going,» Roosevelt wrote in what became known as the «green light letter.» «Everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before. And that means that they ought to have a chance for recreation and for taking their minds off their work even more than before.»
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Error – Double Stamp
Well worn black crackle Zippo with double stamp on the top and the bottom.
- Model:
three barrel hinge, round bottom
- Year:
1943 - 45
- Status:
in collection
Self-Repaired – NVG
Well worn black crackle Zippo with brass initials «NVG» applied on the front. The hinge has once broken and self-repaired by soldering a new, three barrel outside hinge.
- Model:
three barrel hinge (fixed during war), flat bottom
- Year:
1942 - 43
- Status:
in collection
Original Boxes
Original Zippo boxes from WWII in various colors and conditions.
- Year:
1942 - 45
- Status:
in collection
